• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    “Moaist”… I mean he is autocratic and anti-intellectual, but… there seem to be a few other aspects missing in this connection.

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      6 days ago

      I’m not sure Mao was anti-intellectual… The Great Leap Forward was meant to industrialize China in a short period of time, and to do that, he thought he needed to force a bunch of intellectuals to start farming and shit.

      Pol Pot was 100% anti-intellectual